They even watch 'Allo 'Allo im Vaterland. This comedy seems to go down well in quite a few countries. Fun is made of every nationality and the British writers didn't spare their own: the most incompetent buffoons are definitely the English airmen.

It must be a real challenge to dub programmes like this given the puns and mispronunciations. Or do they watch it in English?

Mrs Grumble, who doesn't read the blog, has just pointed out that Dinner for One gets another mention in today's Guardian:

Germany is the unlikely epicentre for a pan-European NYE tradition: the screening of Dinner For One, a black-and-white English-language short about the 90th birthday party of an upper-class Brit. Virtually unheard of in the UK, the skit is the most frequently repeated programme ever, and forms an integral part of the NYE television schedule in Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.